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Monday, February 23, 2015

Broken Dreams by Nancy Pennick

RATED 5 STARS

Two girls from very different backgrounds meet at boarding
school and make a pact to be blood sisters forever. They love one another deeply and have a
strong friendship until a boy gets in the way.
Luckily, they overcome the
problem and go on with their lives and friendship. As time passes , it looks like Anna will live
the life of a proper girl in the 1920’s.
She will get engaged and married and be a wife and mother. Lucinda, on the other hand, craves adventure
out West and wants to be a Harvey
girl and wants Anna to come with her.

Circumstances change and the two girls do go out West
together and are ready for adventure until a certain cowboy changes their
destiny and ruins the friendship.

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I love Anna and Lucinda.
I have read about them all through the
Waiting for Dusk series. In this
story, author Pennick paints a vibrant picture of both girls and shows a deep
understanding of a friendship between two girls.

Lucinda is a
star! She is funny and brave and suffers
so much when her dear father passes away. We really get to see and understand
the motivation behind Lucinda’s actions.

Anna is still the wonderful girl next door type who is loyal
and loving. She doesn’t want to hurt her
dear friend but her feelings for Daniel are just too strong to ignore and he feels the
same way.

I also loved getting to know Daniel and his
perspective. In the previous books, he
was an ancillary character but here he is front and center. I enjoyed reading about him and getting to
know him better.

Now don’t think you can’t enjoy this book if you haven’t
read the series. That is totally not
true. The story stands on its own but
once you read it, you will want to continue the series!You can buy Broken Dreams here: Amazon